SOME NEIGHBORS OF A CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY ARE OUTRAGED TONIGHT. THEY SAY THE KILLING OF A GROUP OF MUSCOVY DUCKS IS SENSELESS. THE HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION HIRED A PEST CONTROL COMPANY TO GET RID OF WHAT THEY CLAIM ARE NUISANCE BIRDS. CLAIRE METZ REPORTS, MANY SAY IT WAS JUST UGLY AND INHUMANE. UNFORTUNATELY, THEY MADE AN EXTREME DECISION. JUST TWO OR THREE MUSCOVY DUCKS WERE ON THIS POND TODAY. SURVIVORS OF WHAT RESIDENT JOHN GRIFFIN CALLS A SLAUGHTER. HE SAW THE DEAD OR DYING DUCKS YESTERDAY AFTER A PEST CONTROL COMPANY USED AIR RIFLES TO RID THE AREA OF THE ANIMALS. YOU WANT TO MOVE A DUCK OR DUCKS IN THIS CASE, THAT'S FINE. BUT TO JUST SHOW UP HERE EARLY IN THE MORNING AND KILL THEM THEN JUST LEAVE THEM HERE IS JUST SHOCKING. APPARENTLY, THE HIRED GUNS BAGGED SOME OF THE DUCKS BUT LEFT OTHERS IN THE WATER OR CARCASSES ON THE SHORELINE. JOHN TOOK PICTURES OF WHAT HE CALLS A VERY DISTURBING SCENE. SEEING SOMETHING STRUGGLE TO KEEP ITS HEAD UP SO HE WOULDN'T DROWN AND JUST GOING BACK IN THE WATER. I MEAN, IT'S JUST -- IT'S JUST TERRIBLE. SUBDIVISION MANAGER KEN NELSON SAYS HE HIRED A STATE APPROVED PEST REMOVAL COMPANY AFTER GETTING NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS FROM RESIDENTS. DUCKS DEFECATING ON THE DRIVEWAYS, CARS, SIDEWALKS. AT TIMES THERE WERE, LIKE, 30 TO 40 DUCKS. NELSON SAYS THE DUCKS ARE NOT NATIVE TO FLORIDA, NOT PROTECTED. HE TRIED TO RELOCATE THEM BUT SAYS NO ONE ELSE WANTED WHAT HE CALLS MESSY PARASITES. SO HE BROUGHT IN A REMOVAL SERVICE WHO FAILED TO COMPLETELY DO THE JOB. I TOLD THEM YOU CAN'T TAKE THE DUCKS AND LEAVE THEM IN THE POND FLOATING AROUND. IT'S NOT RIGHT. THEY SAID IT WAS HANDLED WRONG BY THE TECHNICIAN WHO CAME OUT. SOME INSIST THE WHOLE OPERATION WAS FLAWED AND FLAT OUT CRUEL. I THINK THERE'S A BETTER WAY. I MEAN, THE WAY THEY DID IT IT WAS JUST WRONG. THE REMOVAL COMPANY IS SCHEDULED TO BE BACK AT THE POND TOMORROW BUT THEY'VE BEEN TOLD NOT TO LEAVE THE DISTURBING